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The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard BaxterThe Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter
The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Daniel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1692
Protestant Religion Truly Stated, and Justified, &c. › The Sixth Point accused.
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We commonly hold that the Habit of Peters Faith, must be distinguished from the Acts, and the Act of Assent from the Act that exciteth Confession and conquereth Opposition. And that Peters Faith did not totally fail as to the Habit, nor the Assent, that Christ was the Messiah: But that it actually failed as to the latter Act, that should conquer Fear: Christ said to him and the rest before that, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little Faith: Little Faith, is Faith failing in Degree. This is our Victory over the World, even our Faith, saith St. John. And did not Peters Faith fail as to part of that Victory, when he Curst and Swore that he knew not the Man?
But by Peters Faith, this Deceiver meaneth the Popes Faith: And he instanceth in the Scribes and Pharisees, that were to be heard because they Sate in Mose's Chair, and in Caiaphas the High-Priest. Reader, see what Christians these Slaves of Christs pretended Vicar are: Doth he not plainly infer, that the people did well that believed the Priests, and the Scribes, and Pharisees, that Christ was a Deceiver and worked Miracles by the Devil; and ⟨p. 36⟩was a Blasphemer and a Traitor, and deserved Death; and that cried Away with him: Crucify him? And what wonder if they obey their High Priest, when he Commandeth them to Murder Thousands and Hundred Thousands Saints Nicknamed Heretics, when they justify them that killed Christ and the Apostles, because the Church Commanded it, (unless they will renounce their own plain Consequence?)
But by Peters Faith, this Deceiver meaneth the Popes Faith: And he instanceth in the Scribes and Pharisees, that were to be heard because they Sate in Mose's Chair, and in Cajaphas the High-Priest. Reader, see what Christians these Slaves of Christs pretended Vicar are: Doth he not plainly infer, that the people did well that believed the Priests, and the Scribes, and Pharisees, that Christ was a Deceiver and workt Miracles by the Devil; and ⟨p. 36⟩was a Blasphemer and a Traytor, and deserved Death; and that cryed Away with him: Crucifie him? And what wonder if they obey their High Priest, when he Commandeth them to Murther Thousands and Hundred Thousands Saints Nicknamed Hereticks, when they justifie them that killed Christ and the Apostles, because the Church Commanded it, (unless they will renounce their own plain Consequence?)